Eloqua may become Oracle’s Autonomy, its Achilles’ heel
Guest Post Could Eloqua become Oracle’s Autonomy -- a failed acquisition that undermines Oracle’s entire foundation?
The big risk behind Eloqua’s sale to Oracle
December 20, 2012 1:40 PM
Jennifer Van Grove
Editor's Pick Eloqua's surprise sale to Oracle comes just four months after its initial public offering and follows a strong third quarter. So, why now?
Oracle buys cloud marketing firm Eloqua for $871M
December 20, 2012 6:18 AM
Devindra Hardawar
Oracle's quest to offer cloud services for just about everything continues.
SMAC stacks: What every IT department should know
Sponsored Post Combining social, mobile, analytics, and cloud into a single, integrated stack of technology gives companies a powerful tool to drive understanding and action.
Salesforce to predict the future with the power of Prior Knowledge
November 23, 2012 10:57 AM
Rebecca Grant
Salesforce acquires Prior Knowledge and its predictive database technology for developers.
SproutSocial grows revenue 750% as social media bursts out of the marketing department
October 9, 2012 8:08 AM
John Koetsier
Most two-year-olds are growing fast. But few are growing as quickly as social media management service SproutSocial, which is riding the wave of social media escaping the marketing department and penetrating the entire enterprise.
Nokia inks deal to bring map data to Oracle customers
October 1, 2012 6:56 AM
Ricardo Bilton
Making a play for the enterprise, Nokia's has inked a deal with Oracle, which will use its map data.
Oracle acquires SelectMinds, underscoring importance of cloud-based HR
September 17, 2012 9:06 PM
Dylan Tweney
Oracle has snapped up SelectMinds, a provider of recruiting automation tools, to bolster its portfolio of cloud-based employee and HR services.
Judge: Oracle owes Google $1.13M in legal fees
September 5, 2012 7:09 AM
Sean Ludwig
The federal judge in the Oracle v. Google trial has ordered that Oracle cough up $1.13 million in court fees after Google prevailed in the case.
Oracle fixes critical hole in Java, may have known about the issue for months
August 30, 2012 6:16 PM
Meghan Kelly
Oracle patched the hole in Java 7 that allows hackers to secretly download malware to your computer today, in an uncharacteristic update to its software. But it seems the company knew about the issue far longer than the rest of us.
New hole in Java opens doors to more Mac malware
August 28, 2012 6:53 PM
Meghan Kelly
A new vulnerability in Java 7 may let hackers attack Apple computers, bringing back memories of the recent Flashback trojan that may have been stealing up to $10,000 a day in ad revenue.
SAP gives startups millions of dollars worth of software. Here’s why.
August 25, 2012 9:52 AM
Christina Farr
Editor's Pick SAP's startup program is not just about building loyalty with early-stage companies. It's about ensuring SAP has an equity stake and, when the timing is right, that it can make the first stab at acquisition.
ComScore top 50 sites July 2012: Instagram rocks, Tumblr passes MySpace, Sun Microsystems rises from the dead
August 24, 2012 8:57 AM
John Koetsier
ComScore released its July 2012 Top 50 web properties in the U.S. report yesterday, and it has a few surprises.
Judge to Google, Oracle: tell me which bloggers you’ve paid
August 7, 2012 10:01 PM
John Koetsier
Oracle v. Google re: Java found a way to get interesting again. A couple of months after Oracle's billion-dollar fishing expedition went bust when Google's Android was found not to infringe on Java patents, the judge has asked both parties which bloggers they paid.
Oracle’s sixth acquisition this year is virtualization startup Xsigo Systems
July 30, 2012 10:03 AM
Sean Ludwig
Oracle has agreed to acquire network virtualization startup Xsigo Systems for an undisclosed amount, the company announced today.
This will be Oracle’s sixth acquisition this year, following the purchases of Skire, Involver, Taleo, Vitrue, and Collective Intellect.
Xsigo will complement …
12 nodes, 5 continents, 1 database: TransLattice intros world’s first geographically distributed database
July 24, 2012 5:00 AM
John Koetsier
Editor's Pick
Imagine a functional, live, operational database living on separate servers scattered around the globe in say, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Moscow, and Johannesburg, simultaneously. Not synced, replicated, or cloned — but a single database without a single location.
Now …
Oracle to acquire facilities management app maker Skire
July 19, 2012 12:56 PM
Sean Ludwig
Enterprise software titan Oracle has agreed to buy facilities management app maker Skire, the company announced Thursday.
Skire’s software helps manage the planning, construction, and maintenance of many kinds of buildings around the world. Oracle intends to combine Skire with …
Reachable: 100 billion connections means someone you need to meet knows someone you know
July 19, 2012 3:35 AM
John Koetsier
It’s really, really hard to sell to Joe Blow.
Joe, who knows my former boss Frank, on the other hand … that’s an entirely different matter. That is the premise behind Reachable, a social connection tool for business-to-business sales professionals, …
Oracle looks to take a bigger bite of Facebook’s juicy apple with Involver buy
July 10, 2012 11:10 AM
Jennifer Van Grove
Three months and three major social-software acquisitions for Oracle.
The enterprise software and hardware company now clearly has some not-so-secret ambitions to get ahold of a healthy chunk of the marketing budgets allocated to Facebook.
Following a May purchase of …
12 photos of Larry Ellison’s gorgeous new Hawaiian island, Lana’i
June 21, 2012 11:10 AM
Rakesh Agrawal
What do you buy if you’re a rich, eccentric billionaire with nearly everything? Why, an island, of course!
Oracle’s Larry Ellison is buying 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lana’i.
I’ve had the opportunity to visit most of the main …
